[mythtv-users] Duplicate matching

Jan Ceuleers jan.ceuleers at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 18:15:33 UTC 2020


On 24/02/2020 17:33, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> So duplicate matching is much more an art than a science, and you
> either need to put in the time to keep track of what is going on, use
> settings that will cause duplicate recordings but will not miss new
> ones and then manually cull the duplicates when you need to.

I've gone with the following inclusion in my daily post-mythfilldatabase
cleanup run:

update program set programid=left(concat(title," - ",subtitle),63);

I made simular updates in the recorded and oldrecorded tables. Seems to
be working at first glance.

Thanks to all.


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